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Welcome

The mission of UniProt is to provide the scientific community with a comprehensive, high-quality and freely accessible resource of protein sequence and functional information.

What we provide

UniProtKBProtein knowledgebase, consists of two sections:
  • Swiss-Prot, which is manually annotated and reviewed.
  • TrEMBL, which is automatically annotated and is not reviewed.
UniRefSequence clusters, used to speed up similarity searches.
UniParcSequence archive, used to keep track of sequences and their identifiers.
Supporting dataLiterature citations, taxonomy, keywords and more.

News

Release 14.5 – Nov 25, 2008

Plastid: the most important organelle!


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Protein Spotlight

Hidden powers
November 2008

We all take advantage of each other, one way or another. Cats hunt mice for food. Humans keep dogs for company. Flowers give off a scent to attract pollinators. Viruses use organisms to multiply. And ticks suck animal blood to stay alive…